T. Thomas Fortune (played by Sullivan Jones), the New York Globe newspaper editor Peggy meets in the first season, was a real historical figure. Between the 1880s and about 1907, he ran one of the premiere Black newspapers in America, publishing condemnations of racial violence, discrimination, and segregation. He helped to found an organization called the Afro-American League (later the National Afro-American League), which worked for voting rights, desegregation, equal opportunities in education, and a stop to lynchings. His Encyclopedia Britannica listing calls him "the leading black American journalist of the late 19th century."
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